Communicable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[.a]*b'l),
     a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.]
     1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a
        communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
        {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  communicable
       adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn:
               {catching}, {contagious}, {contractable}, {transmissible},
               {transmittable}]
       2: readily communicated; "communicable ideas"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "communicable":
     allowable, assignable, bequeathable, bestowable, catching,
     conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, deadly,
     destructive, devisable, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic,
     epiphytotic, epizootic, expansive, expressable, giveable,
     impartable, infectious, infective, inoculable, interchangeable,
     mailable, malign, malignant, mephitic, metathetic, miasmal,
     miasmatic, miasmic, movable, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous,
     pestilential, poisonous, portable, portative, presentable,
     removable, sporadic, spreading, taking, toxic, toxicant,
     toxiferous, transferable, transfusable, transmissible,
     transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative,
     transposable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent,
     zymotic